...Sebastián Carassai Argentina's Missing Bones: Revisiting the History of the Dirty War . By James P. Brennan Violence in Latin American History . Oakland : University of California Press , 2018 . Photographs. Maps. Tables. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xi, 195 pp. Paper...

...Adrian A. Bantjes Surviving Mexico’s Dirty War: A Political Prisoner’s Memoir . By Bornemann Alberto Ulloa . Edited and translated by Schmidt Arthur and De Schmidt Aurora Camacho . Philadelphia : Temple University Press , 2007 . Photographs. Notes. Glossary. Index. Cloth...

...Sebastián Carassai Consent of the Damned: Ordinary Argentinians in the Dirty War . By Sheinin David M. K. . Gainesville : University Press of Florida , 2012 . Notes. Bibliography. Index. x, 216 pp. Cloth , $64.95 . Copyright © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 How unpopular...

...Ronald H. Dolkart Dossier Secreto: Argentina’s Desaparecidos and the Myth of the “Dirty War.” By Andersen Martin Edwin . Boulder : Westview Press , 1993 . Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xii, 412 pp. Cloth, $59.00 . Paper, $17.95 . Copyright 1994 by Duke...

.... Copyright 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Divine Violence: Spectacle, Psychosexuality, and Radical Christianity in the Argentine “Dirty War” . By Graziano Frank . Boulder : Westview Press , 1992 . Notes. Index . xi , 328 pp. Cloth . $49.95 . ...

...David Pion-Berlin Argentina’s “Dirty War”: An Intellectual Biography . By Hodges Donald C. . Austin : University of Texas Press , 1991 . Notes. Bibliography. Index . xviii , 387 pp. Cloth . $37.50 . Copyright 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 This book wrestles...

... and autobiography, Eduardo D. Faingold describes a family’s reaction to the terror, displacement, and seeming randomness of Argentina’s Dirty War. It is a book about personal adaptation and family cohesion. Diáspora y exilio is clearly not an academic study of the Dirty War (known in Argentina as the Proceso...

... and subsequently in the “Dirty War” carried out by the successor military regime, whose extralegal actions the guerrilla activities did much to legitimate. The volume consists basically of three sections. The first provides an overview of Argentine politics after 1955 and focuses on the development...

...Marvin Alisky Latin Americans are suffering high unemployment, runaway inflation, and annual population increases which dump millions of additional young job seekers onto labor markets which cannot absorb them. They do not worry about dirty water or dirty air, but rather how to earn a living...

... of government subsidies, cultural productivity exploded. Authors, novelists, writers, and dramatists probed the roots of Argentine malaise and pointed accusing fingers. They analyzed the regime’s “dirty war” and its legacy to its victims, the Malvinas or Falkland Islands war, and the general influence...

...Herminio Portell-Vilá It is certainly strange that in these times there will be a book praising what Gen. Wood himself called his “dirty work in Cuba.” Mr. Hitchman skips the subject of the millions of dollars paid by Cuba to the “lobbyists” and claims that the noble joint resolution of 1898...

... Sociales y Políticos del Pasado, to investigate forced disappearances during the “dirty war” of the 1970s and 1980s. After five years of work, the special prosecutor's office delivered a total of zero convictions, effectively prolonging Mexico's history of impunity. How and why that happened is the subject...

... corruption, a conclusion that most chapters examining similar campaigns sadly echo. The second and third sections respectively cover the Mexican miracle (1945–68) and the dirty war (1964–ca. 1982) and offer nuanced regional and even local perspectives on how drug trafficking and production were...

...Vanessa Freije Nonetheless, Eclipse of the Assassins offers important insights into Mexico's dirty war and the US-Mexican relationship during the late Cold War. Accessibly written, the book will appeal not only to historians of Mexico but also to a popular audience interested...

... scholars in the United States. He opens with a well-documented section on the international antecedents to the Missile Crisis: the “dirty tricks” program that encouraged pro- Batista terrorists to detonate dams and bridges, pushed religious figures to denounce Fidel Castro, and sent diplomatic blitzes...

..., in the author’s view, felt no such constraints and ran the full gamut of political dirty tricks, including, finally, the “American-inspired” military coup d’etat that brought down the Allende regime. There is no real effort here to be scientific except in dialectical terms, as reflected in the mainly Marxist...

... the youthful, innocent-appearing Antonio José de Sucre as top commander and diplomat while Tomás Heres does the undercover “dirty tricks” to splinter whatever unity there might be among Peruvians, all of whom had one thing in common—their resentment against foreigners. After Ayacucho the reader begins to see...

... Espinosa waged against ignorance in this manuscript was also aimed at racists in the Southwest who viewed all Hispanics as “dirty Mexicans.” If Espinosa overstated his case, presenting Hispanic culture as a static vestige of Castilian medievalism, thereby differentiating it from Mexican immigrant culture...

... of this book reviews the same history of military intervention, from José F. Uriburu’s 1930 uprising through the military repression of the “Dirty War,” the debacle of the Falklands-Malvinas conflict, and the return to civilian rule. Most of this material is based on secondary sources, and it contributes...

... to the events of 1968 suggests, for good or ill, that the present has a past, something many economists in the United States think Douglass North discovered 20 years ago. I doubt that our colleagues in Latin America, many of whom have seen “dirty wars,” murder, and oppression firsthand, are quite so naive...